Cao Cao and Yuan Shao left the examination room and returned to the camp. They were far away, and they could hear the roar of people in the camp. The people's voices were even more lively than when the Confucian classics exam was finished.

"Who has been to the north? Who has been?" A scholar asked someone excitedly.

One person replied, "Someone in my family has been to the North."

"Is there really a frozen land thousands of miles away in the north?"

"There is grassland to the north, but I don't know how far north it goes."

The topics discussed by the scholars were exactly what Cao Cao and Yuan Shao were curious about.

Cao Cao and Yuan Shao, who had always been isolated and independent, rarely took the initiative to join the discussion. They gathered around the scholars who knew the grasslands, the sea, and the Western Regions, and asked about various situations outside the region.

During the Han dynasty, the people were martial arts, which was completely different from the later dynasties where everyone was inferior in everything but educated.

In the Han Dynasty, the highest thing was not studying, the highest thing was opening up borders and expanding the territory, and sealing the wolf to live in Xu.

Putting merit and study together, the scholars of the Han Dynasty would have the emotion of "I would rather be a centurion than survive for one person". In this era, it is a beautiful thing to write and serve in the army. I don't know how many scholars of the Han Dynasty were good at writing.

With the word "good", he threw the pen away, Wu picked up the sword, and chopped down the good guy with one hand.

This was an era when the Han people were as brave as wolves and tigers.

Yuan Shao and Cao Cao, in this hot-blooded era, had the same ferocious intentions as they did to the Han people.

Liu Xuande's test question sparked a heated discussion in the Outer Territory, and also ignited Yuan Shao and Cao Cao's unquenchable childhood dreams.

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After the First Course of Military Strategy.

Section 7, Agricultural Administration.

A volume on agricultural administration, covering practical matters such as seasons, crops, agricultural tools, taxation, grain prices, etc.

Although Cao Cao was not very interested in the agricultural administration subject during the examination, he was very respectful when faced with the complicated and wide range of examination questions.

Cao Cao himself could not answer the test questions completely, but he couldn't help but think that anyone who could answer a paper about agricultural politics as well as possible must be a great talent in agricultural politics.

The final question on agricultural affairs is to examine methods of famine relief.

The question requirement is, "Try to answer from multiple places."

It is these many places that greatly increase the difficulty.

Cao Cao answered, "The government is exempted from taxation to give the people a chance to breathe." This is the law of the government. Cao Cao also answered, "The rich and powerful people will all come to the disaster area, and the rich people will buy men as slaves and women as servants, and use the lives of living people.

This is another method.

After answering these two methods, Cao Cao didn't know whether the answer was perfect or not, and he felt very unsure.

After leaving the examination room and returning to the camp, I listened to the chatter of the scholars. I heard someone reply that in the year of great disaster, there will be a great epidemic, and we should be careful to prevent it.

Cao Cao immediately felt regretful and thought to himself: Why didn't he think of it and why didn't he write it? It's not hard to imagine.

Cao Cao also heard that some people discussed that the construction of the water conservancy law must be the cause of any major disaster, and the failure of water conservancy must be one of the causes. Disasters happen together, and it may not be possible to end it in a year or two. Relief is not a long-term plan, but a long-term plan should be taken.

It’s better to get to the root of the disease.

There is no doubt that this is another method of disaster relief.

Cao Cao felt even more unsure.

And the eighth subject, construction, this subject, like other subjects, is extremely complicated and involves an extremely wide range of subjects.

This is a subject of construction, ranging from simple questions about building houses to large-scale construction of cities and fortresses. When asked about the details of the matter, Cao Cao could not give an all-inclusive answer.

The final question of the subject is "Construction", one question is about the method of building a fort on flat ground, and the other question is about the method of raising a fortified city on a winter night.

The question of how to build forts on flat ground reminded Cao Cao of bad memories. He thought of the time of the Giant Deer, when 30,000 soldiers were surrounded by Liu Bei with earthen forts, and were almost forced into a desperate situation.

Building forts on flat ground naturally requires a lot of manpower and tools, so Cao Cao wrote the letter in hand.

Later, I remembered that on the day of the Julu confrontation, Liu Xuande had a lot of Yellow Turban manpower, and there were many farm tools in the Yellow Turban, so he was truly blessed by nature.

Liu Xuande is good at using people and makes him a worthy opponent.

It was not difficult for Cao Cao to answer the question of how to build forts on flat ground. I guess the person who answered it best was Cao Cao, because Cao Cao had experienced it personally. For him, this question was almost like a leak question.

As for the last question, how to fortify a city overnight in winter.

Don't you know that when the weather is cold and the ground is freezing, the soil is as hard as iron and it is difficult to dig shallow trenches, so how can we build a city overnight?

Cao Cao thought to himself, since the question came up, it shouldn't be a random question. Maybe there is a way to raise the city overnight. Cao Cao couldn't help but ponder.

Since the test was about construction, Cao Cao started thinking about engineering skills, but Cao Cao didn't know engineering skills and couldn't figure it out even after racking his brains.

To, the ninth subject, the last medical subject in the liberal arts department.

For Cao Cao, this subject was the one he was least good at, even worse than construction.

The paper asked about the Yellow Emperor's Internal Classic, Shennong's Materia Medica, various types of medicines, and pharmacological dialectics. Cao Cao didn't understand them at all. For Cao Cao, there was a possibility of turning in a blank in this subject.

In the medical science subject, the final question is, "Methods to prevent epidemics." The final question is only this one, and the question is simple, with only four words.

But this sentence made even those candidates who were proficient in medical science in the examination room feel embarrassed.

People talk about epidemics like tigers, which kill millions of people in a lifetime, and how difficult it is to treat epidemics. When asked this question, everyone in the audience found it very difficult.

Soon after, the medical examination was completed, and Cao Cao and Yuan Shao left.

In the camp, the two of them pretended to be malicious and asked each other questions.

Yuan Shao looked helpless, "I almost didn't write it!"

"So is so! Haha!" Cao Cao was happy.

When Cao Cao heard that Yuan Shao didn't answer well, Cao Cao's depression disappeared and he felt happy.

Today is April 15th, exactly in the middle of the year.

As of this day, all nine subjects of the literary examination have been completed.

After the exam, the Yulin army still refused to let him go and kept him locked up in the camp.

For most people, in the camp, they have food and drink, three meals a day, and meat and vegetables from time to time. If they can continue like this, it doesn't matter if they stay for a year and a half. But for Cao Cao and Yuan Shao,

, the meals with meat and vegetables were just poor quality to them, and the accommodation conditions were not good either, so they were left feeling bored.

The imperial examination had been going on for many days, and Cao Cao and the other eight people had become quite familiar with each other, and they laughed and chatted harmoniously with each other.

During the chat, Cao Cao offered an olive branch to the eight people as if joking, saying that if anyone came out, they could work for him under Cao Mengde.

Among the eight people, someone knew Cao Cao's name. When Cao Cao was in charge of the city, he killed the uncle of Shi Chang Shi Qian Shuo, which shocked Luoyang.

"Ah! I don't know the real person. It turns out that you are Cao Mengde. I have admired you for a long time!"

Cao Cao chuckled and pointed to Yuan Shao, who was sitting on the bed beside him silently and not talking to anyone, "This is my colleague, Yuan Shao and Yuan Benchu."

Everyone immediately looked at Yuan Shao.

"Ah! Could it be the Yuan family of the Fourth Generation and Three Dukes?

Brother Benchu, are you coming to the imperial examination too?"

What bitch dared to brazenly call himself brother and sister? Yuan Shao was very unhappy. He raised his head and looked coldly at the guy who looked flattering and wanted to make friends. He coldly replied, "It's none of your business."

One sentence can make people choke and turn red.

On the side, Cao Cao looked embarrassed and wanted to speak to calm the atmosphere, but he opened his mouth several times and was speechless.
Chapter completed!